I was recently chatting with a coaching client who asked me about tech skills. She didn’t consider herself very computer literate or technically savvy, and wanted advice on what tech skills to focus on. It’s a great question, and something I’ve been meaning to talk about for a while.
Today is that day!
There are literally endless business and tech skills to learn when starting and running your own business. I’m cutting through the clutter and focusing ONLY on those tech-related areas you need right now.
FYI, this is NOT by a complete list by any stretch of the imagination. But, it should get the ball rolling.
What You Will Learn
The Top 10 Tech Skills Consultants and Coaches Need NOW
Walkthrough and explanation of each skill in … Read more >

Are you, or someone you know / love / trust looking for better circumstances? Better job or better clients?
Or maybe, like me, you have a son or daughter entering the workforce and want to give them that extra EDGE.
It was just that very circumstance (my son graduated this week!) that prompted this impromptu ‘brain dump’ of all things job-getting related.
As a bit of background, I’ve done literally hundreds of projects, dozens of clients, and countless hundreds of interviews. In our enterprise consulting practice, I work with many of our clients to screen and hire project staff as well. I know what works, and what doesn’t when it comes nailing the interview.
But before you jump ship on me and say “Corbin, I’m a super-business-owning … Read more >

Something completely different today...
I'm going to talk a bit personal, a bit business, and share a big announcement later in the show---so stay tuned for it.
Recently, I've been doing a LOT of personal-dev training and development. (Way more than usual, in fact.) And as part of that effort, it hit me that one of the things I preach---know where you are at any given time wasn't being followed.
Things had been so frantic with client business growth, that other areas of the business weren't getting the right levels of attention. And I was completely out of step with 'knowing where I was'. (Not a good place to be in life or business.)
I'll share a bit of that discovery today's episode and along with it, and a very practicable 5-Point … Read more >

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Short but intense episode today.
I'll be talking about a topic I see come up way WAY too much with first-time business builders:
That's the subject of "tools".
Software. Toys. "Infrastructure"
AKA -- Distractions
Software, apps, productivity tools, web services and all manner stuff is great. There's a time and place.
But when you're getting started and building the first legs of business? This stuff can KILL your time and income.
So I'll share a little story from this weekend, along … Read more >

I love coaching and being coached—don’t you?
But let’s face it: not all coaching sessions are blissful trips to happy land, if you know what I mean. Like anything else in business, coaching sessions can get off track, or go terribly wrong. And whether you’re on the client or coach side of the table, a bad session can wreck things for both sides.
A bad coaching session can be anything from tempers flaring, to boredom and lack of interest, to frustration and feeling results were missed, and all points in between. Best case, you both escape with your professional relationship intact and try again another day.
But worse, and far more likely, a bad---and certainly a super bad---session may never be recovered. These can and do happen even to … Read more >

Are you a pleasure to do business with?
I’ll admit to a few times in my past that the “pleasure to do business with” statement didn’t maybe...completely apply to me. In fact, it took a few lost sales and failed client renewals to pull it all together.
Fast forward to today—there are precious few companies, or consultants, who bother to ask themselves this question.
Let's face it:
Many companies and consultants—especially in the corporate and government space—are a drag.
Endless procedures, huge documents, endless calls, dour people, ridiculous numbers of sales reps showing up from the same company, endless email threads, crazy #'s of meetings, and the list goes on.
Not fun.
And ask yourself: when is the last time you or your firm … Read more >

I've been getting a few questions lately from consultants asking about client renewals.
Why don't their clients renew with them?
How come contracts don't get extended or renewed?
Why no call backs from previous clients?
If you've been in this business for more than 5 minutes, you've come across this issue. Things are going really well. You may also be delivering great results to your clients...
But when the agreement comes up for renewal, they decide not to. Another way to look at this is keeping a high "client retention" rate or percentage. And it's right to question client attrition numbers, because something is clearly wrong.
High client retention rates and long relationships better yet---ever-expanding ones---are key to a thriving … Read more >